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KINFRA to set up Rs. 121.92 crore Mega Food Park at Kanjikode in Kerala
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Tuesday, 31 March, 2015, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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fiogf49gjkf0d The ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI), Government of India, has approved the proposal submitted by Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA) to set up a Mega Food Processing Park at Kanjikode, Palakkad. The estimated project cost is Rs 121.92 crore. The assistance sought from MoFPI is Rs 50 crore.
The Mega Food Park would be provided with basic infrastructure like roads, electricity and water. Apart from basic infrastructure, common facilities such as water treatment plant, effluent treatment plant, quality control laboratories, cold storages, warehouses, and process centres would be set up. The Primary Processing Centres would also be equipped with weighing lines, packhouses, chill rooms/cold storages, and so on. It is estimated that the park would employ about 4,550 people by way of direct employment and 12,880 people by way of indirect employment.
The ministry has given top priority to infrastructure creation for food processing industries and it has a dedicated scheme in the 12th Five Year Plan for infrastructure creation known as the ‘Mega Food Park Scheme (MFPS).’ The primary objective of the MFPS is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for the food processing along the value chain from the farm to the market. It will include creation of processing infrastructure near the farm, transportation, logistics and centralised processing centres. The main feature of the scheme is a cluster-based approach. The expected outcome is increased price realisation for farmers, creation of high quality processing infrastructure, reduction in wastage, capacity building of producers and processors and creation of an efficient supply chain along with significant direct and indirect employment generation.
Under the Mega Food Park Scheme, each project is assisted with a grant-in-aid support to the extent of 50 per cent of eligible project cost, subject to a maximum amount of Rs. 50.00 crore. The MFPS envisages setting up a three-tiered structure consisting of a Centralised Processing Centre (CPC) with facilities for food processing activities involving higher-end value addition, Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) with facilities for pre-processing activities or lower-end food processing, Collection Centres (CCs) for facilitating convenient collection of raw materials from farmers. The PPCs and CCs are located near to the farms and would be spread across the region from where the main raw materials for the Mega Food Park are targeted.
In line with the prescribed guidelines of MFPS, the EOI submitted by KINFRA proposed the following three tiered components:
Central Processing Facility (CPC or Food Park)
The proposed CPC is located in Elappuly 1 and Pudussery villages of Palakkad District. KINFRA has identified 73 acres of land for this purpose. The identified land is already in possession of KINFRA.
Primary Processing Centre (PPC)
In KINFRA’s Mega Food Park project, about five Primary Processing Centres have been proposed in the districts of Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Thrissur and Ernakulam, from where the main raw materials would be sourced.
Collection Centre (CC)
In KINFRA’s Mega Food Park project, about 15 Collection Centres have been proposed in the districts of Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Thrissur and Ernakulam.
The raw material base for the Mega Food Park would extend over an area around Palakkad including the districts of Wayanad, Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Thrissur and Ernakulum. The major raw materials identified for the Mega Food Park would include coconuts, ginger, pepper, cardamom, turmeric, tamarind, jackfruit, tapioca, papaya, banana, pineapple, mango, cashew, arecanut, paddy etc.
The Mega Food Park would cater to food processing units dealing with various coconut products (like tender coconut water, coconut milk, cream, dehydrated powder etc); fruit products (like fruit beverages/concentrates, candies, jams, pickles), spice products (like whole spices, spice powders ,spice extractions, seasonings etc), starch based products, value-added products from rice, bakery products, ethnic preparations from Kerala etc.
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